Hacker News: physhster

New comment by physhster in "U.S. science is in chaos"

physhster — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:02:18 +0000

Complicated question... Do you have marketable skills that could land you a job in demand with a visa? Or sufficient savings to "buy" residency somewhere?

New comment by physhster in "Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks"

physhster — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:32:24 +0000

You can criticize all you want on memegen, people will upvote but nothing will change.

New comment by physhster in "Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their"

physhster — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:44:08 +0000

^ this! Ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, people who decide to work there make the statement that they are ok with it. Same with Palantir, X, Grok, Tesla etc

New comment by physhster in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

physhster — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:45:32 +0000

Apple Maps only works well in North America, possibly just the US. The same way a lot of happy paths in Apple products are designed for California/Single Culture/Single Language/Single Residence.

New comment by physhster in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

physhster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:57:32 +0000

You're confusing colos and first-party data centers. A colo mostly relies on its customers for installs and maintenance. Google, MS, FB, Apple etc own the entire building so all the functions are local: server install and maintenance, network install and maintenance, generator maintenance, electricians, water treatment in some cases... That's very easily in the hundreds if not thousands for big sites.

Count the cars here: 36.242186561973, -95.32619746715035

New comment by physhster in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

physhster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:53:37 +0000

You have no idea how much maintenance is required. Just replacing hard drives, not even counting server repairs, new servers installation, network infrastructure installation and maintenance, power distribution, generator engineering, water treatment etc etc

New comment by physhster in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

physhster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:51:33 +0000

Data centers are hardly new technology... For the longest time, people had no idea where the cloud was because the footprint was pretty small. It's another golden goose moment where everyone is going to build DCs and we might end up like in the dotcom bubble where way too much fiber was deployed for what was necessary at the time.

New comment by physhster in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

physhster — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:49:11 +0000

Less than 30 makes no sense. It's easily in the hundred if you account for shifts and the specialized jobs required.

New comment by physhster in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

physhster — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:25:21 +0000

Thanks for that, now I have a rock-solid argument when people say "oh we're already Microsoft customers, we'll just use Azure, it's easier, and they have Active Directory!!"

New comment by physhster in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

physhster — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:18:49 +0000

This reads like Google culture too...

New comment by physhster in "ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight"

physhster — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:42:22 +0000

Some airlines and/or local aviation authorities have additional restrictions. China wants CCC certified power banks, Thailand has a strict 160 Wh limit. Both are very strictly enforced.

New comment by physhster in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

physhster — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:38:55 +0000

Is this an ad for comma.ai? Because it sure reads like one...

New comment by physhster in "Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website"

physhster — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:15:03 +0000

Better than not having solar panels at all...

New comment by physhster in "Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war"

physhster — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 12:00:32 +0000

So does Pichai... Every time there is something new, he forces Google to pivot, upending everything without much to show for it.

New comment by physhster in "2025 Infrastructure Report Card"

physhster — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:31:27 +0000

A C seems pretty generous...

New comment by physhster in "Tesla Robotaxi Videos Show Speeding, Driving into Wrong Lane"

physhster — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:48:02 +0000

https://archive.ph/LkjJw

New comment by physhster in "EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud"

physhster — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 21:46:05 +0000

For cheap bulk compute, it's probably ok, but where would you serve your actual critical prod from?

New comment by physhster in "EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud"

physhster — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 20:39:54 +0000

I don't think OVH is anywhere near the level of AWS/GCP/Azure in terms of the quality of the infrastructure and networking. They seem to cut all the corners they can cut in pursuit of lower prices. They built a data center out of wood, with no fire suppression, and it burned down, taking businesses with it: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/opinions/ovhclouds-dat...

New comment by physhster in "Las Vegas is embracing a simple climate solution: More trees"

physhster — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 04:50:15 +0000

The whole city is a climate problem.

New comment by physhster in "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"

physhster — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:32:04 +0000

I'm afraid most of the damage is already done...